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The British writer is best known for her award-winning debut novel White Teeth

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In 1910 the National Education Association elected her its first woman president

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Meera Bai KU The British writer is bestAlso known as Meera Bai, this sixteenth century Hindu mystic poet is widely known and cherished in the Bhakti movement culture. Though there are no surviving manuscripts from her time, she is credited with a passionate and blissful poetry style that always centered on Krishna. Her compositions are still sung today in India, mostly as devotional songs, as they are deeply philosophical.